I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.